Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Don't Bring Me Down

Electric Light Orchestra

Entered Aug 4, 1979 · peaked at #4 on Sep 8, 1979 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 10, 1979

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Billboard Hot 100 · #4, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #3, 9 wk
Record Power
29.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
August 1979 – November 1979

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what the song earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Electric Light Orchestraprimary100%28.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 8, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1My SharonaThe Knack
  2. #2Good TimesChic
  3. #3After The Love Has GoneEarth, Wind & Fire
  4. #4Don't Bring Me DownElectric Light Orchestra
  5. #5The Devil Went Down To GeorgiaThe Charlie Daniels Band
  6. #6Lead Me OnMaxine Nightingale
  7. #7Sad EyesRobert John
  8. #8The Main Event/FightBarbra Streisand
  9. #9I'll Never Love This Way AgainDionne Warwick
  10. #10Lonesome LoserLittle River Band

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Don't Bring Me Down — Electric Light Orchestra · ChartReign